Romans 7:18

Paul knows that nothing good dwells in his flesh; he can will the good but not carry it out. The flesh has no power to produce true righteousness.

Cross-references · 31

• John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
• Gal 5:17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
• Ps 119:115–117Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
• Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Gen 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Mark 7:21–23For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Rom 8:3–13For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• Eph 2:1–5You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
• Rom 7:19For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
• Rom 7:15For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
• Gen 8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
• Phil 3:12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
• 1 Pet 4:2that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
• Luke 11:13If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
• Ps 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
• Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• Rom 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
• Rom 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
• Ps 119:173Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
• Gal 5:19–21Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
• Isa 64:6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
• Ps 119:5Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
• Ps 119:32I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY

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